Lacing-eyelet



MAcARTHUR VAN DEUSEN, DECD.

A. P- VAN DEU SEN, ADMINISTRATRIX,

LACING EYELET.

APPLlCMION FILED AUG-21.1919.

1,381,949 Patented June 231,

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units DEUSEN ADMKNZSTRATPJDZ OZ? InllCZll'G Application filed August 21, 133.9.

To all 7mm- 66 may concern Be it known that l, liliesnion VAN Der-sew, a citizen oi? the United States, residing at ll lidland larlr, in the county of llcrgcn and State of llew Jersey, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Lacing-Eyelets, of which the following a specification. i

The principal object of t to provide a lacing eyelet for laced shoes, especially low shoes, which will permit a broad or lace to he usedtherewith and in such manner that the loops oi. the lace may be formed and retained fiat throughout their whole extent thus to impart neat and attractive appearance to the shoe-and may further in the best form of the invention conceal the eyelets themselves; a further object is to provide an eyelet of the kind contemplated above with means to receive lacing for use in actually drawing and holding the sides of the placket opening of the shoe together, such means being}; so located that the lacingwill be concealed by tile flat lace, whereby the latter will serve only or mainly as an ornament and will be saved the wear and tear of an actual securing; means. So far as the provision of an eyelet which will have means to receive a lacing or equivalent for actually drawing his invention is l and retaining the sides of the placket to gether and which will receive a flat lace or equivalent to conceal the lacing is concerned I do not wish to be limited, however, to the eyelet being formed so as to retain ti o loops of the lace flat throughout their whole err-- tent, for an eyelet provided with an eye for the lace and with means to receive the lacing at point relatively between the eye and the adjoining edge of the placket opening, as hereinafter pointed out, is broadly new and if a fairly wide lace is employed the lacing will be concealed thereby.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a shoe provided with eyelet such as is showuin Figs. 2 to 5 and showing" a lace assembled therewith 2 is a View similar to Fig. being partly outlined;

Figs. 3, 4i and 5 are a plan view, a side elevation, partly in section, and an inside elevation of one form of the improved eyelet;

Figs. 6 and 7 are a side elevation, partly 1, the lace specification of Letters joining edge of theplaclret in section, and an inside elevation of otheterm of the in'iproved eyelet; and

8, 9 and 10 show that form of the in which provision is inside for the oception of both a securing lacing and an omentol lace, Fig. 8 showing the eyelets flan on a shoe and also showing the lacomitting the lace, and Figs. 9 and .espectively a side elevation, partly i, and a plan oii' said eyelet. adesi nates the placket opening of a shoe 2). c in l and 2 designates the improved eyelets in that form which is illustrated in igs. 3 to 'ing to Figs. 3 to 5 (Z is a groin-st in itself elf OlTllllily form and adapted to be secured in the edge portion of the placket oi the shoe the same as ordinary gromets. Formeo preferably integral with its upper rim or dance a is projecting 'l'shaped head f, which is bent upwardly and has an O1 dove g. Preferably the out .1 edge 1 aid head is convex. Gremets of this for wre secured in the edge portions of the a ')].1l11g in two rows, one on each i said opening, so that their heads are ihstantially parallel to the c or the placket opening and conseuently, with respect to each row, all in nement' further, the groinets are so secured in position that the head f of each i the side thereof, that is, at

ot the placket. Now in ed term oil? the eye 9 ct Oilcfl. gr iibet it will be seen that when a flat lace is threaded through the several eyes t groincts, especially so as to form a series of parallel loops 5'', the said loops may be termed and will berctained by the eyeletsliat, so that the tie formed by the lace 121s and retains a definite and conventional shape and the shoe therefore assumes a neat and a c active appearance. The edge it of the head of: each groinct is made convex so as to insure the nroinet preserving the lace loops 7' transversely extended.

The head f of en ch groniet is arranged at the relatively outer side thereof with respect to the adopening so that the lace will as much as possible cover and thus conceal the grornet; to this end it is desirable to arrange the head so that it will he canted somewhat away fromthe adjoining edge of the placket opening, which groniet relatively away from adjoining will also facilitate threading the lace I through the eye 5/.

In Figs. 6 and 7 the T-head having the elongated eye Z and its outer edge we preferably convex (the parts 70,- Z and m being substantially the same as the parts 7, g and i2.

1 already described) is connected with the upper rim a of the groniet o by a neck p, which is rebent over the groinet, the rebent neck 2) 7 extending far enough across the gromet, in

the preferred form, so that the top of the T- head 70, at least, is relatively beyond the vertical axis of the groinet. When groinets 01 this form are secured in the edge portion of the placket those in each row are arranged with their heads all substantially parallel with the edge of the placket and in alinement witheach other, and also so that their heads are outward from said edge, 2'. 0.,

of the vertical axes oi the several gromets.

The heads are also preferably canted away from the adjoining placket edge. l/Vhen the lace i is threaded through gromets of this type, arranged as described, the loops j thereof will assume and retain the desired form hereinbefore described and shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and will also conceal the gromets.

Referring to Figs. 8 to 10, the parts q, r, s, t, a and o have been given, by way of example, the same form and arrangement as the parts 70 to p, in Figs. 6 and 7. But an eye w, preferably cylindrical, projects inwardly (that is, toward the adjoining placket edge) from the neck 11. The eyes 7 are adapted to have threaded through them a lace (not shown) the same as the lace i in Figs. 1 and 2. But this lace serves in the present case only or mainly as an ornament, and i or drawing and retaining the placket edges together a lacing 00 is threaded through the eyes w. The ends of the lacing, when tied, may be tucked in the top of the shoe, so as to be concealed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Incombination, with the placket portion of a shoe, a lacing eyelet including a groinet secured to said portion atone side. of the placket opening and a head on the gromet having a lace-receiving opening transversely elongated and extending substantially parallel with theadjoining edge ofthe placket.

2. In combination, with the placket por tion of a shoe, a lacing eyelet including a groinet secured to said portion at one side of the placket opening and a head on and upstanding from the groniet having a lace receiving opening transversely elongated and extending substantially parallel with the adjoining edgeol the placket.

3. In combination, with the placket portion of a shoe, a lacin eyelet including a groinet secured to said portion at one side of the placket opening and a head on the gromet arranged at the side of the gromet relatively away from the placket opening and having a lace-receiving opening elongated and extending substantially parallel with the adjoining edge of the placket.

i. in combination, with the placket porion of a' shoe, a lacing eyelet including a groinet secured to said'portion at one side placket opening'and ahead on. and

of the upstanding from the gromet having a lace receiving opening elongated and extending substantially parallel with the adjoining edge of the placket, said head being canted away from said edge of the placket.

In combination, with the placket portion of a shoe, a lacing eyelet including a groniet secured to said portion at one side of the placket opening and a head on the gromet having a lacereceiving opening elongated and extending substantially parallel with the adjoining edge of the placket, the

uter edge of said head forming a convex curve.

6. in combination, with the placket por tion of a shoe, a lacing eyelet including a groinet secured to said portion at one side of the placket opening and a head 011 the gromet having an elongated lace-receiving eye extending substantially parallel with the adjoining edge oi the placket, and lacing-receiving means relatively between the eye and said placket, said means being adapted to receive a lacing for securing the shoe to the wearers foot and the eye being Y adapted to receive a fiat lace to conceal the lacing.

7. in combination, with the placket portion of a shoe, a lacing eyelet including a groinet secured to said portion at one side of the placket opening and a head on the gromet having a lace-receiving eye, and lacing-receiving means relatively between the eye and said placket, said means being adapted to receive a lacing for securing the shoe to the wearers foot and the eye being adapted to receive a fiat lace to conceal the lacing.

In testimony whereof .l atlix my signature.

MAQARTHUR VAN DEUSEN. 

